Supporting Kubernetes, with Ken Massada

What does it take to support Kubernetes for other users? Kenneth Massada, a lead for GKE support at Google Cloud, tells Craig and Adam his story.

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Chatter

• Adam lives in Seattle, which is on fire
• Craig baked some tasty cookies
  • Using this recipe
  • But not using Vegemite, British Marmite or New Zealand Marmite, which are three totally separate things. Only one of which is nice.
    • Hint: it’s the last one

News of the week

• 2018 Kubernetes Steering Committee Elections
• Binary Authorization on Google Kubernetes Engine
• kube-hunter from Aqua Security
  • Video
  • Blog
• Kubernetes issues and solutions from Alexander Lukyanchenko at Avito
• Cilium 1.2 released
  • Accelerating Envoy with the Linux Kernel
• James Lee’s blogs on Kubernetes networking
• Amazon EKS supports GPU-Enabled EC2 instances

Links from the interview

• etcd is hard:
  • Configuration flags
  • OpenAI suggestions on scaling Kubernetes to 2,500 nodes includes a separate events database
  • Kubernetes docs on configuring and upgrading etcd
  • Tina and Fred from Google SRE also discussed etcd on Episode 9
  • (Or use GKE, where we do it all for you)
• Other hard concepts:
  • apiVersion: is hard
  • spec: is hard
  • Liveliness and readiness probes - don’t make them the same!
  • Joe Beda thinks of YAML as machine code in Episode 12
• What would Ken like to see changed in Kubernetes?
  • Affinity and anti-affinity rules and topology keys
• Kenneth Massada on Twitter
  • Or summon him with a GCP support case!